This book explores the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic exposed fragilities in socio-economic and political structures in Africa as well as the weaknesses in the African Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The book also analyzes how the African Church should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address these failures.

The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya is a bold and incisive look at the African Church in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the book, contributors explore how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragilities of African society as well as the weaknesses in the Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The African Church and COVID-19 analyzes the question of how the Church in Kenya should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address the vulnerabilities of socio-economic and political structures in Africa.

Introduction: Imagining of a Post-COVID-19 Church in Africa

Martin Munyao

Chapter 1: Understanding COVID-19 Disease and the Church in Africa: Infections, Containment, and Vaccines

Natalia Gitu and Peter Martin Gitu

Chapter 2: ‘Can these Bones Live?’: African Christianity and Human Security in Post-Covid-19 Era

Chammah J. Kaunda

Chapter 3: The Church and Food Security in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Call for Decolonializing the African Mind

Joseph Muutuki

Chapter 4: Environmental Justice and the Church in Post-COVID-19 Era

Peter Durito

Chapter 5: Religious Diplomacy and Interstate Relations During COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring Interfaith Engagements in Mediating for Peace and Harmony in the East African Region

Martin Munyao and Maureen Muturi

Chapter 6: The Church and Humanitarian Crisis in The Post-Covid-19 Era

Sylvia Tuikong

Chapter 7: The Church, Family, and Gender-Based Violence in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Patrick Musembi, Joseph Muutuki, and Josephine Munyao

Chapter 8: Assessing the Preparedness of the Church in Handling Mental Health Cases in Society in the Post-COVID-19 Period

John Mudegu

Chapter 9: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Socioeconomic Vulnerability of Households: An Assessment of Poverty Eradication Strategies Employed by Christian Chapel, Kenya

Patrick Musembi

Chapter 10: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Education in Kenya: Challenges and Opportunities

Evelyn Jepkemei and Martin Munyao

Chapter 11: The Church Will Provide: The Church and Public Education in Kenya

Wandia Njoya

Chapter 12: Church, COVID-19, and Gender-Based Violence in Kenya: Strategies for Intervention by the Post-COVID Church

Sylvia Muriuki